BR Class 52 D1062 Western Courier

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BRBritish Rail or British Railways Class 52 D1062 Western Courier
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D1062 Western Courier at Kidderminster in 2017
Built By BRBritish Rail or British Railways Crewe Works
Configuration C-C
Power type Diesel Hydraulic
Status Operational
Loco Number D1062
History
Built 1963
Designed By British Railways
Type Class 52
1976 Purchased by WLAWestern Locomotive Association Ltd.
1978 Moved to SVRSevern Valley Railway
1980 Attended Rocket 150
Technical
Length 68ft
Weight 108t

Diesel Locomotives

British Railways (BRBritish Rail or British Railways) assigned Class 52 to the Type 4The British Railways classification for diesel locomotives of 2000 bhp to 2999 bhp diesel-hydraulic locomotives built between 1961 and 1964 for BRBritish Rail or British Railways(W). They carried numbers D1000-D1073, but never carried TOPSTotal Operations Processing System, an American computer system adopted by BR from the late 1960s to number and manage rolling stock. locomotive number. All were given two-word names beginning "Western", hence the type became known as 'Westerns' or 'Thousands'.

D1062 in service

D1062 Western Courier was built at Crewe Works and entered service at London’s Old Oak Common shed on 6 May 1963. D1062 also served at Cardiff Canton, Swansea Landore and Plymouth Laira, and was withdrawn from the latter by BRBritish Rail or British Railways on 23 August 1974 after 1,096,000 miles in service.

D1062 in preservation

D1062 was bought from BRBritish Rail or British Railways by the Western Locomotive Association on 4 November 1976, becoming the first class 52 ‘Western’ to be preserved. Following purchase the locomotive was repainted in original maroon livery.

In May 1977 D1062 and sister locomotive D1013 Western Ranger moved to the Paignton & Dartmouth Railway, and following tyre turning at Cardiff Canton depot both arrived on the SVRSevern Valley Railway on 29 September 1978.

Western Courier attended the Rocket 150 celebrations at Rainhill in May 1980, the only privately owned diesel locomotive to do so.

The WLAWestern Locomotive Association Ltd. overhauled D1062 between 1998 and 2005 including major rewiring. On 29 April 2005 the HLFHeritage Lottery Fund (National Lottery Heritage Fund from 2019) granted the WLAWestern Locomotive Association Ltd. £45,500 towards Western Courier's overhaul, which was used for sending a defective Voith transmission to the manufacturer in Germany.[1]

As of 2017, D1062 is in regular service on the SVRSevern Valley Railway and has been repainted in blue livery.


See also

Diesel Locomotives
SVR-based locomotives visiting other events

References

SVRSevern Valley Railway Stock Book Ninth Edition

  1. The National Lottery

Links

Western Locomotive Association website
British Rail Class 52 on Wikipedia